| 词条 | War Production Board |
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| type = | seal = US-WarProductionBoard-Seal.svg | seal_caption = | logo = | logo_caption = | formed = {{Start date|1941|08}} | preceding1 = Supply Priorities and Allocation Board | preceding2 = | dissolved = {{End date|1945|11|03}} | superseding1 = Civilian Production Board | superseding2 = | superseding3 = | superseding4 = | superseding5 = | jurisdiction = United States Government | headquarters = Washington, D.C. | coordinates = | motto = | employees = | budget = | minister1_name = | minister1_pfo = | minister2_name = | minister2_pfo = | deputyminister1_name = | deputyminister1_pfo = | deputyminister2_name = | deputyminister2_pfo = | chief1_name = Donald M. Nelson | chief1_position = 1942-44 | chief2_name = Julius A. Krug | chief2_position = 1944-45 | chief3_name = | chief3_position = | chief4_name = | chief4_position = | chief5_name = | chief5_position = | chief6_name = | chief6_position = | chief7_name = | chief7_position = | chief8_name = | chief8_position = | chief9_name = | chief9_position = | parent_department = | parent_agency = | child1_agency = | child2_agency = | keydocument1 = | website = | map = | map_caption = | footnotes = | agency_type = | agency_name = War Production Board | nativename = | nativename_a = | nativename_r = | logo_width = | seal_width = | picture = | picture_width = | picture_caption = | map_width = }}The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it in January 1942, with Executive Order 9024.[1] The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board and the Office of Production Management.{{sfn|Herman|2012|pp=164-165}} The WPB directed conversion of industries from peacetime work to war needs, allocated scarce materials, established priorities in the distribution of materials and services, and prohibited nonessential production.{{sfn|Herman|2012|pp=164-165, 193-194, 197-199}} It rationed such commodities as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, paper[2] and plastics. It was dissolved shortly after the defeat of Japan in 1945, and was replaced by the Civilian Production Administration in late 1945. In 1942-45, WPB supervised the production of $183 billion worth of weapons and supplies, about 40% of the world output of munitions. Britain, the USSR and other allies produced an additional 30%, while the Axis produced only 30%. One fourth of the US output was warplanes; one fourth was warships. Meanwhile, the civilian standard of living was about level.[3] OrganizationThe first chairman of the Board was Donald M. Nelson, who served from 1942 to 1944.{{sfn|Herman|2012|pp=80, 164-165, 194-199}} He was succeeded by Julius A. Krug, who served from 1944 until the Board was dissolved. The national WPB constituted the chair, the Secretaries of War, Navy, and Agriculture, the lieutenant general in charge of War Department procurement, the director of the Office of Price Administration, the Federal Loan Administrator, the chair of the Board of Economic Warfare, and the special assistant to the President for the defense aid program. The WPB had advisory, policy-making, and progress-reporting divisions. The WPB managed twelve regional offices, and operated one hundred twenty field offices throughout the nation. They worked alongside state war production boards, which maintained records on state war production facilities and also helped state businesses obtain war contracts and loans. The national WPB's primary task was converting civilian industry to war production. The WPB assigned priorities and allocated scarce materials such as steel, aluminum, and rubber, prohibited nonessential industrial production such as nylons and refrigerators, controlled wages and prices, and mobilized the people through patriotic propaganda such as "give your scrap metal and help Oklahoma boys save our way of life."[4] It initiated events such as scrap metal drives, which were carried out locally to great success. For example, a national scrap metal drive in October 1942 resulted in an average of almost eighty-two pounds of scrap per American.[4] WPB order M-9-C related to the conservation of copper, and in May 1942 The Film Daily reported that this would apply to the production of new motion picture sound and projection equipment, but not to the delivery of items already produced.[5] {{-}}EffectsThe WPB and the nation's factories effected a great turnaround. Military aircraft production, which totaled 6,000 in 1940, jumped to 85,000 in 1943. Factories that made silk ribbons now produced parachutes, automobile factories built tanks, typewriter companies converted to machine guns, undergarment manufacturers sewed mosquito netting, and a roller coaster manufacturer converted to the production of bomber repair platforms.[4] The WPB ensured that each factory received the materials it needed to produce the most war goods in the shortest time. {{quote|Without American production the Allies could never have won the war.|Joseph Stalin during a dinner at the Tehran Conference, 1943[6]}}From 1942 to 1945 the WPB directed a total production of $185 billion worth of armaments and supplies. At war's end, most production restrictions were quickly lifted, and the WPB was abolished on November 3, 1945, with its remaining functions transferred to the Civilian Production Administration.{{cn|date=June 2016}} Members
Civilian Production AdministrationExecutive Order 9638 created the Civilian Production Administration and terminated the War Production Board on October 4, 1945.[8] The Civilian Production Board was consolidated with other agencies to form the Office of Temporary Controls—an agency in the Office for Emergency Management of the Executive Office of the President. The latter had previously been established pursuant to the Reorganization Act of 1939.[9] The Executive Order provided a Temporary Controls Administrator, appointed by the President, to head the Office of Temporary Controls and vested in him, among other things, the functions of the Price Administrator.[10]See also{{div col}}
Notes1. ^Executive Order 9024 - Establishing the War Production Board (January 16, 1942) 2. ^{{cite book |editor-last= Butler|editor-first= Pierce|date= 1945|title= Books and libraries in wartime|chapter= War and the book trade|url= |location= Chicago|publisher= University of Chicago Press|pages= 88-104|oclc=1349001}} 3. ^{{cite book |author= |title= Industrial Mobilization for War: History of the War Production Board and Predecessor Agencies: 1940-1945|url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112041826683|location= |publisher= United States Bureau of Demobilization, Civilian Production Administration|pages= 961-962|date= 1947|isbn=}} 4. ^1 2 War Production Board 5. ^{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/filmdail81wids#page/n308/mode/1up|title=No More Copper for New Motion Picture Equipment |date=19 May 1942|work=The Film Daily|pages=1, 6|accessdate=5 June 2016|location=New York}} 6. ^One War Won, TIME, December 13, 1943 7. ^{{cite news|last=Fowler|first=Glen|title=Irving Brown, 77, U.S. Specialist On International Labor Movement|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/11/obituaries/irving-brown-77-us-specialist-on-international-labor-movement.html|accessdate=19 September 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=11 February 1989}} 8. ^Executive Order 9638 - Creating the Civilian Production Administration and Terminating the War Production Board (October 4, 1945) 9. ^Reorganization Act of 1939, {{USStatute|76|19|53|561|1939|4|3}} 10. ^Executive Order 9809 - Providing for the Disposition of Certain War Agencies (December 12, 1946) Selected publications{{Commons category|War Production Board}}
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